Single Parent Family Quotes

Me personally, I'm real close to my mom. She raised me. It was a single-parent home situation. She did everything: cooked, worked two jobs, came home late, but she loved me to death.

I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

I was a kid growing up in Houston, didn't have a lot - three younger brothers, a single mom. It was tough.

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.

I was raised by a single mother.

All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.

My mom was a single parent.

I'm from Pemberton, Wigan, and was born into a poor family. I grew up on a council estate. My dad was at first in the Army and then in the coal mines. My mother had four children by the time she was 23 so money was always tight.

What I was told is that I was born to a mother who was a Catholic, while her boyfriend was not. They couldn't get married unless they put me up for adoption.

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

I'm kind of proud of being a love child.

The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.

I grew up with my dad. I'm an only child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally.